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This is something that's been bothering me since the first time I played Portal. Who is the big bad jellyfish, and what are they wanted for?
This drawing appears on a wall in an office right before ...

I have tried changing the game audio settings of Portal to Traditional Chinese with no luck. Only subtitles seem to change, and that is after changing the language settings of the Steam client. The ...

I bought Portal via Steam -- at some point they released an update that added a small radio to each level playing a muzak version of the Still Alive song. Googling indicates this is part of an easter ...

After seeing Half-Life 2 being played with the Portal Gun by importing the maps into Portal's map folder, I wanted to do it myself. I got the maps to work properly, but when I use "impulse 101" to get ...

I thought of trying out the demo of Portal before I bought the game and was amazed. But then after chamber 10 something weird happened that wouldn't allow me to continue to chamber 11. I wasn't sure ...

I get a strange rendering problem in Portal on Linux (via the latest Steam beta).
I'm running on integrated Intel HD4000 with fairly recent modules/drivers (up to date Arch). Everything is smooth and ...

As said in the question title, I'm searching a script/C/C++ program/whatever to replay the ending song of portal. I mean the whole terminal style credit playing as an application on the computer, not ...

I just got a brand new Sager NP9170 laptop, with Ivy Bridge processor and Radeon 7970m graphics.
The first thing I did to test the machine was to install Steam, and then install the original Portal.
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I would like to use a wired Xbox 360 controller to play Portal on a Mac. I tried following the steps as explained in the Steam Support article “Using an XBox 360 Controller with Source Games.”
So I:
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I picked up Portal and Portal 2 when they were on sale on Steam a few weeks back. I think these could be really good games, but I (for whatever reason) get vertigo when playing first person games.
Is ...

I found some youtube videos playing this GLaDOS sound file which I don't recall in the game at all. All the videos are fan made, none show the quote being made in game.
I've beaten the game about 4 ...

I have limited internet access and played through Portal without being online. As a result, several of the achievements didn't unlock. I later went back and played through a second time online to try ...

I've played (and finished) the original Portal on my Xbox 360. I really liked the game, and thought many times about having another go to listen to the developer commentary. However, I do not fancy ...

Since Valve makes numerous games that are quite popular, I was wondering if anyone had a good resource for listing the Easter Eggs in Portal and Portal 2. I've seen some web pages that list a couple, ...

I am looking for the turret voice overs from Portal in the following file:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\portal content.gcf
I've extracted this using GCFScape, but they don't seem to be in ...

One of things I'm particularly interested is how they transformed Ellen McLain's voice to GLaDOS' musical one. I don't think it's entirely a natural effect by voice acting, though I have to admit I ...

As a pet project, I would like to use the original Portal to introduce people to gaming.
However, I live in Italy and Italians are culturally not very comfortable with subtitles (not to mention the ...

I have played Portal (loved it), but not Half Life.
First, what is Black Mesa? And how is Portal related to Black Mesa? I know GLaDOS mentions it in the "Still Alive" tribute at the end of the game. ...

My account on Xbox live says that I haven't gotten the "Vanilla Crazy Cake" Achievement but I actually have completed the achievement and when I load up Portal and look at the achievements in the game ...

The end credits to Portal include a bunch of ASCII art, but one of them is really hard to make out. The one below looks like some sort log-cake or something. I’ve tried resizing it up and down, but it ...